Hello, AIRA and MACAW (the Measurement for Assessment and Certification Advisory Workgroup) would like to invite you to a Town Hall meeting to discuss proposed Incoming/Ongoing Assessment Measures and Tests, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Assessment Thresholds, and CDS Validation. This call is scheduled for January 9, 2020 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm EST...

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Hello,If you attended November’s Discovery Session on the IIS Procurement Process, you may recall that there were technical issues during the session. Due to these technical issues, we did not have a recording of that session – until now! Thanks to CDC’s Beth Cox, PHII’s Bill Brand and HLN's Marcey Propp, we have rerecorded that session, and...

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Hello, New in 2020, the AIRA Members & Partners meetings are moving to a quarterly schedule. The AIRA Members & Partner meetings will be held from 2 – 3 p.m. ET in January, April, July, and October 2020. The purpose of this meeting is to provide you with important updates from AIRA and its partner organizations. It is a great way to get a h...

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Hello, As a reminder, AIRA’s next Discovery Session will be held on Monday, December 16 at 4pm ET. AIRA and the Modeling of Immunization Registry Operations Workgroup (MIROW) Steering Committee are excited to introduce an upcoming MIROW guide, Business Continuity Planning for Immunization Information System Programs. Highlights of the gui...

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Hello,This email contains a message from our partners at the.National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO). Webinar Announcement: Measles in Rockland County, NY – The Local Health Department’s Outbreak Response Measles is a highly contagious virus in which one infected person can potentially infect 9 out of 10 expo...

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Hello, As a reminder, AIRA’s next Discovery Session will be held on Monday, November 25 at 4pm ET. The session will touch on key points to consider when involved in the procurement process. This includes considerations when updating maintenance and support contractors and when acquiring new systems or services. We hope you can join u...

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Hello, The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) is hosting a two-day regional workshop for the Pacific Islands in Guam on March 3-4. The workshop will address topics including measurement and improvement, the CDC Dashboard, clinical decision support, interoperability, and data quality and use. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear...

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Greetings Colleagues,

The American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) is proud to introduce and release the newly developed guide Patient Status in Immunization Information Systems.

AIRA leveraged a community-informed approach to examine implementation barriers and challenges to develop recommendations for patient status management in an IIS. The main purpose of the guide is to bridge the gap between currently published guidance on patient status and its actual implementation by IIS. This guide offers practical guidelines for providers, public health entities, and IIS to use in implementing and managing patient status. Challenges and recommendations related to IIS functionality, ease of use, implementation, and policy are described for both provider and geographic jurisdiction level issues. A secondary purpose of the guide is to address the issue of denominator inflation experienced by many IIS.

The primary audiences for the guide include IIS managers, IIS staff with responsibility for data quality, and Immunization program staff that work with providers, such as in Vaccines for Children (VFC) and quality improvement work. The document may also be valuable to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Immunization Program Managers, IIS vendors, EHR vendors, jurisdiction-specific information technology staff, national organizations supporting IIS, health care providers, and other partners and policy makers.

A community webinar was conducted on October 28 to introduce this guide and the recorded link can be found by using the “webinars” filter in the AIRA repository.

If you have questions regarding this new guide or webinar, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
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Hello,

This email contains a request for information announcement and AIRA Members and Partners Meeting information.

Request for Information

AIRA is initiating a Request for Information (RFI) to invite interested agencies and firms to submit details about their business. AIRA will use the information gathered during this RFI process to identify the organization it will contract with to improve the organization and usability of its website, www.immregistries.org. Detailed information can be found here.


AIRA Members and Partners Meeting

The next AIRA Members and Partners bimonthly meeting is on Monday, November 18 at 2 p.m. ET. You'll find the agenda attached. As a reminder, a webinar component has been added to these meetings and the webinar information, along with dialing information, is included below. Recordings of past meetings can be found in the AIRA repository.

Join Webex Meeting
Meeting number: 739 220 308
Meeting password: membership

Join by Phone
Dialing Information: 1-800-326-0013
Passcode: 1670187#

Thank you,

Brittany Gyer | Administrative Coordinator
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
1155 F Street NW, Suite 1050 | Washington, DC 20004
Main: 202.552.0208 | Direct: 202.552.5748 | www.immregistries.org


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Hello, This email contains a webinar announcement and an Information Request. Webinar Announcement AIRA is working with HHS' Office of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), along with additional partners, to expand consumer access to immunization records. This effort is exploring connecting personal health record vendors with IIS to expand consumer a...

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Hello, Please see the following Information Request from the Connecticut Immunization Program below. If you are willing to share information, please reply directly to this email and include contact information for follow-up. INFORMATION REQUESTED Connecticut has been asked by Trinity Heath to fill out a lengthy risk assessment survey before they wi...

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96 Annual Partners Meeting - Updates from Brasilia View this email in your browser Date: 6 November 2019 3rd EYE Annual Partners Meeting: Global community working for yellow fever control More than 130 participants from 16 countries, three WHO regions and a multitude of partners joined in Brasilia, Brazil for the EYE Annual Partners Meeti...

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Hello, Please see the following Information Request from the Minnesota Department of Health below. If you are willing to share information, please reply directly to this email and include contact information for follow-up. INFORMATION REQUESTED We are in the process of working with our legal team to review the NIS-IIS Data Use Agreement (DUA) provi...

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Hello, Please see the following Information Request from the North Dakota Department of Health. If you are willing to share information, please reply directly to this email and include contact information for follow-up. INFORMATION REQUESTED Does your state allow out-of-state schools to have access to your IIS? If yes, does the user at the out-of-s...

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Introducing our 2020 - 2023 Goals and StrategiesReaching the Under-Reached: 2020 - 2023 Goals and StrategiesThe world has changed greatly in the nearly 20 years since our founders – Blaise Judja-Sato, Craig Nakagawa, Lionel Pierre, and Didier Lavril – joined forces with Mrs. Graça Machel’s Foundation for Community Development in Mozam...

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Reaching the Last Mile View as WebpageDrones Swoop into the Congo with VaccinesThe Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Ministry of Health, Gavi, Swoop Aero and VillageReach celebrated the first drone flights to deliver vaccines that were administered to children at a health center in Equateur Province, DRC.Read More ...

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